Affiliate disclosure: who pays for this site and what that buys
Free-to-read guides are paid for by somebody. Here is exactly who, exactly how much influence that grants, and exactly where the line sits.
The business model in three sentences
Some outbound links on dragonia.io carry a tracking parameter. If a reader follows one, opens an account with the operator and plays, the operator may pay this site a commission. That revenue funds the testing budget — the deposits, the withdrawals and the hours spent reading terms — and there is no subscription, paywall or donation button anywhere on the domain.
What it costs you: nothing
The commission is paid by the operator out of its own marketing budget and is never deducted from a player's balance. Bonuses, wagering requirements, deposit minimums, withdrawal ceilings and payout timing are identical whether you arrive through a link here or type the operator's address into the browser yourself.
Nor is there any hidden mechanism: no pop-ups, no forced redirects, no invisible iframes. Partner links open in a new tab and are visible in the status bar before you click, so you always know where a click will take you.
Where the wall stands between money and verdict
Ratings and conclusions are written before any tracking link is inserted into the page. No operator, affiliate manager or network sees a draft before publication. Nobody can pay to raise a score, remove a criticism or take down a page, and every request of that kind so far has been declined in writing.
The mechanics that keep this honest are unglamorous. Every platform is scored on the same fixed checklist — payments and real payout timing, bonus terms after the small print is decoded, catalogue and providers, support responsiveness, licence transparency — and no step is skipped because a relationship is commercially attractive. Where a platform underperforms, the page says so; the current editorial score for Dragonia is 4.3 out of 5, and it has moved both up and down since the first review.
Relationship with Dragonia and with the reader
dragonia.io is not owned, operated or controlled by the Dragonia operator or by any casino group. We are an editorial project; the operator runs a platform. We hold no player funds, open no accounts and settle no disputes — the escalation route for those is on the complaints page.
Our obligation runs to the reader, and the practical form it takes is this: figures we did not measure ourselves are introduced with "the operator states", and licence claims are always pointed back at the public register rather than repeated as fact. The verification routine is described on our about us page.
Responsible play outranks revenue
No commission justifies pushing somebody towards a deposit they should not make. These pages are written for adults aged 18 and over, they do not present gambling as income, and every guide that touches money links to the protective tools — deposit limits, breaks and responsible gambling resources, including the free Italian helplines.
Corrections and how to hold us to this
If a figure on this site is stale or wrong, report it through the contact page. Corrections are published with a visible revision date rather than deleted quietly, and material changes are logged. This affiliate disclosure exists so that the arrangement can be judged openly instead of guessed at — the whole guide starts from the English homepage.